Dedi Effendi has created the project "Comics That Explain: Turning Hard Concepts into Stories Across Classrooms" in Class2Class.org

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Comics That Explain: Turning Hard Concepts into Stories Across Classrooms

What is this project about?

Student teams co-create a full educational comic that explains a complicated concept through a character-driven story using dual coding principles, drafting, illustrating, and refining it with feedback from the partner class. They present the finishe...

Age of Students: 9-12 years, 16-18 years
Project Duration: 2 weeks
Starting Month: November 2026

This project contributes to the following global goals

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Learning Outcomes

Students will be able to identify and describe a complex concept from their local curriculum and explain the dual coding principles that make it accessible through storytelling.

Remember / Understand

Students will be able to apply dual coding principles by using visuals and text together to illustrate a complicated concept in a character-driven comic, collaborating with teammates to draft the storyline.

Apply

Students will be able to analyze how their partner classroom's feedback and cultural perspectives reveal strengths and gaps in the comic's explanatory power, and compare these with their own interpretations.

Analyze

Students will be able to evaluate the comic's effectiveness in a live video exchange with the partner class, using peer feedback and intercultural communication to judge how well it explains the concept.

Evaluate

Students will be able to design and refine an original educational comic that explains a complex concept through innovative storytelling, integrating international feedback into a finished product.

Create

Skills to develop

Creativity & Innovation

Collaboration & Teamwork

Intercultural Communication

Project Activities

Meet the partner class and pick a complicated local concept

Students introduce themselves to the partner class in a short video call, then teams choose a complex concept from their local curriculum to explain with a comic.

Duration: 30 minutes

Draft the story, characters, and dual coding plan

Teams plan a character-driven storyline that pairs simple visuals with short text to explain the concept, then draft panels and share them with the partner class for early feedback.

Duration: 70 minutes

Illustrate, refine with partner feedback, and finalize the comic

Teams draw and polish the comic, compare the partner class's comments with their own view, and revise where the explanation is unclear.

Duration: 50 minutes

Live video exchange to present and evaluate the comic

Teams present their finished comic in a live video call, and both classes discuss how well it explains the concept and what cultural perspectives changed it.

Duration: 30 minutes